Republicans are crazy about taxes
Republican leaders weathered the recent debt ceiling debate with aplomb, fiercely and tirelessly resisting all calls for increases in Government Revenues through new taxes. Their opposition to new taxes is so absolute, so unrelenting, that it effectively rests on a total renunciation of belief in the legal morality of taxation. Republicans would be more philosophically [...]
Lapore is wrong about meaning in Poetry
Ernie Lapore, “Poetry, Medium, and Message.” The Stone. New York Times Online. 7.31.2011. Rutgers philosopher Ernie Lepore writes about poetry in yesterday’s installment of “The Stone,” a philosophy “blog” on the New York Times. Something about the article rankled me and inspired this cranky response. Lapore says the New Critics locate meaning, and the resistance [...]